The Bible In Paintings: SATAN REALLY REALLY REALLY TEMPTS JESUS

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings
~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~

SATAN REALLY
REALLY REALLY
TEMPTS JESUS

֎ Featuring 38 Paintings and 1 Mosaic ֎

MATTHEW 4 and LUKE 4*

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

1
GEORG CORNICELIUS
"Christ Tempted by Satan"

2
WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"Forty Days in the Wilderness"

3
HAROLD COPPING
"The Temptation of Christ"

4
IVAN KRAMSKOY
"Christ in the Wilderness"

5
BRITON RIVIERE
"Christ in the Wilderness"

6
PAUL BRILL
"Christ Tempted in the Wilderness"

7
JOHN ST. JOHN LONG
"The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness"

8
JOOS DE MOMPER the Younger
"The Temptation of Christ"

9
JAN BRUEGHEL
"Temptation of Christ"

10
PHILIPS AUGUSTIJN IMMENRAET
"Temptation of Christ"

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

11
TITIAN
"The Temptation of Christ"

12
GANESH KELAGINA BEEDU SHENOY
"Devil Tempting Jesus"

13
JAMES TISSOT
"Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness"

14
JUAN DE FLANDES
"Temptation of Christ"

15
SIMON BENING
"The Temptation of Christ"

16
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Temptation of Christ"

17
BOTTICELLI
"Temptation of Christ"

18
SALVATOR ROSA
"The Temptation of Christ"

19
WILLIAM BLAKE
"Christ Tempted by Satan to Turn the Stones to Bread"

Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ ”

Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”

20
SIMEON SOLOMON
"Thou Shalt Not Tempt"

21
BOTICELLI
"Temptation of Christ"

22
JAMES TISSOT
"The Temptation of Jesus"

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours.”

23
HANS THOMA
"The Temptation of Christ"

24
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Temptation of Jesus"

25
LUDWIG FERDINAND SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"The Temptation of Christ"

26
PHILIPS AUGUSTIJN IMMENRAET
"Temptation of Christ"

27
FÉLIX JOSEPH BARRIAS
"The Temptation of Christ by the Devil"

28
Source

29
ARY SCHEFFER
"Temptation of Christ"

30
DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA
"The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain"

31
Source

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ ”

32
CARL BLOCH
"Christ Rebuking Satan"

33
Source

34
BOTICELLI
"Temptation of Christ"

35
Source

36
"Christ's Temptation"

37
Source

38
JOHN RITTO PENNIMAN
"Christ Tempted by the Devil"

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Then the devil left him until an opportune time, and angels came and attended him.

39
JAMES TISSOT
"Jesus Ministered to by Angels"

New International Version ©1984
*For completeness, multiple Gospel accounts are synthesized here
into a single narrative; for full texts, please consult your Bible.

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SATAN REALLY REALLY
REALLY TEMPTS JESUS

[SisterK]

Can I vote twice??
#1 is a stunning portrait
#4 illustrates the somberness of the moment - and the rocks look so real they appear to be a photograph

[xp38]

On a spiritual level the greatest battle in history until maybe the end times.

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You can vote endlessly.

#1 is so riveting that I thought yesterday about making it my desktop image, but I decided its proportions are wrong: too tall. I may yet figure it out, though.

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Well said—and it came at the end of forty days’ severe deprivation. No wonder the angels attended Him!

I marvel and marvel at all He has done for us....

[xp38]

That alone was probably miraculous or supernatural. Most of us would be dead after40 days without food. The number of days is interesting since 40 was the number of days Noah was in the ark and I think the number pops up in the Bible elsewhere as well.

[etabeta]

What a profound lesson for humanity! Thank you for all the powerful photos of today’s lesson.

In Italian we say in jest, when we want to push away someone or something abrasive to us: “Pussa via, Satan” (Go away from me, Satan)

[left that other site]

Good Morning, Dan. :-)

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That alone was probably miraculous or supernatural.

I believe the Father wanted His Son to learn to rely on the Holy Spirit moment-by-moment, challenge-by-challenge:

Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Hebrews 2:18

and

During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered.... Hebrews 5:7-8

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Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!" Matthew 16:23

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And to you, Mary-Lou. :)

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and happy Sunday everyone!

One of your most exciting groups. The solitude and isolation of that wilderness must have been difficult, even for the Savior.

#4 Kramskoy
#20 Solomon - Is that pencil? Wonderful
#29 Scheffer
#32 Bloch

Many depict Satan as old, but #11 Titian shows him as a very young man.

Thank You Dan!

[InkStone]

Vote EARLY, Vote OFTEN

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Titian shows him as a very young man

Satan can materialize however he wishes. Now that you've pointed it out: wouldn't Satan have thought it advantageous to appear to Jesus as a contemporary?

[InkStone]

“wouldn’t Satan have thought it advantageous to appear to Jesus as a contemporary?”
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It would seem so, yes.

[Huskrrrr]

Hard to pick a favorite, but I’ll go with #38. “Be gone”!

[thecodont]

Favorites: #4 (always a favorite), #28, #32. And of course, #39, our Lord as an exhausted prizefighter resting in His corner of the ring, attended by the angels.

The most compelling pictures, I think, are the ones in which the Tempter is not so obviously present; the Enemy would want to persuade our Lord that He was alone and that the tempting thoughts and desires were His own.

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Jesus will someday tell him that with absolute finality. No wonder Lucifer is so fanatically desperate.

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the Enemy would want to persuade our Lord

No doubt hallucinations and fantasies are most severe after forty days of all that.